On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 11:34:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > In my continuing testing of deity I have discovered a number of packages > that had/have a self referencing depends, ie:
> I just want to be sure that this IS a packaging bug and not something done > deliberately. It looks like the packages I mentioned above are fixed in > hamm so this only effects bo users and upgrading.. I suspect a self-referenced "Depends:" is always a bug. However, you also reported a bug in the "ddd" package that "Provides:" itself. This type of self-reference need not be a bug. For instance, take "unzip". The "unzip" and "unzip-crypt" (on non-US) packages both provide the virtual package "unzip", so that other packages can have a "Depends: unzip" (the virtual one), without having to know which packages actually provide that functionality. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
